Brightening your home with mums also can brighten the days of women who are coping with breast cancer.

It’s the ninth year for a local chrysanthemum sale.

Proceeds will benefit the statewide Indiana Women in Need Foundation, commonly known as I.W.I.N.

The mum sale is being handled by a Richmond-based I.W.I.N. steering committee.

The Richmond group is accepting orders through Sept. 5. The mums will be available for pickup from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Sept. 13 at First English Lutheran Church in Richmond.

The mums, which come in 10-inch pots, are offered in yellow, bronze, white, lavender, mauve and wine red. Cost is $8 each or $7.50 each for four or more.

Since 2006, the Richmond steering committee’s efforts have raised more than $125,000 for I.W.I.N. and helped more than 200 women in the east-central Indiana counties of Wayne, Randolph, Union, Fayette and Henry.